Chesapeake Weddings - The Making Of My Book Cover

I've gotten so many compliments about my book cover that I contacted the designer: Kirk DouPonce at DogEared Design. I wanted to find out the process he used in designing my book cover. I asked him the following question and I've also noted his response.

I was wondering about the process you used for developing my book cover? Did you use stock photos or did you draw the images yourself? One of the stories is set on a dairy farm, so I'm assuming that Barbour gave you a synopsis of the story?

Hi Cecelia, I'm happy to hear that your book is being well received!
The publisher provided a general synopsis of each of the three novels, allowing me to choose which to depict. I thought the farm scene would be the most fun, so I researched a number of stock sites to see what I could find. In the end I created the image using multiple photos, attached.

Here are the pics that Kirk attached in his email to me. I can see how the cover was created from the following images:






And...voila - here's the book cover! :-)



~Cecelia Dowdy~